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Scott Zidbeck

Senior Assistant District Attorney

Senior
Assistant District Attorney Scott Zidbeck was born in San Diego,
California. He was later adopted by retired United States Navy Captain
William Edward Zidbeck and JoAnn Marie Zidbeck.

Zidbeck
graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) with a
bachelor of arts degree in 1987. While attending UCSB, he played
Division I tennis for four years.

Zidbeck
then attended California Western School of Law in San Diego, where he
earned his juris doctor degree. He worked as a tennis instructor
throughout college and law school. Zidbeck also briefly played
professional tennis after his undergraduate studies and during law
school.

In 1990, Zidbeck
joined the Orange County District Attorney’s Office as a law
clerk. He was officially sworn in in December 1990 upon passing the bar
exam and has served 26 years in the office to the present date. He was
initially assigned to the Family Support Division and to Municipal Court
Operations, where he worked in all five Municipal Courts before
advancing to Felony Panel. After completing Felony Panel, Zidbeck served
as a trial attorney handling vertical prosecutions in the Career
Criminal Unit, the TARGET Unit, the Environmental Protection Unit, the
Gang Unit, and the Special Prosecutions Unit.

In
December 2006, Zidbeck was promoted to Assistant Head of Court and
assisted supervision of both the North Justice Center and the Felony
Panel for three years. In February 2010, he was appointed to Assistant
District Attorney and was named the Head of Court and Program Director
of the Insurance Fraud Unit where he supervised the deputy district
attorneys assigned to the Workers’ Compensation Fraud, Healthcare Fraud,
Automobile Fraud, Urban Auto Fraud, and the Orange County Auto Theft
Task Force programs.

In
September 2014, Zidbeck transferred to be the Head of Court for the Gang
Unit where he helped oversee the consolidation of the OCDA’s Gang and
TARGET Units over the past year and a half.

In January 2017, he was promoted to senior assistant district attorney and began overseeing and managing the Violent Crimes/Vertical Prosecution Division.